The word “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a variety of services that offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. Actually, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to move either your site or your e-mails to a different company, it is going to take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change 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 set up more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up will not take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domains or subdomains is extremely easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are managed through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you may click on any one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any troubles if you want to move your site or emails to a different company while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.