The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a set of services that offer different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two separate services despite the fact that 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 manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you want to point either your site or your emails to another provider, it'll take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create will not take more than several hours and if required, you'll 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 Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, you're going to have total 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 of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes just a few clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.