The term “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a number of services that offer various functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you would like to move either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally just two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated hosting plans which we offer, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires just a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.