The term “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a set of services that offer different functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a couple 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 specifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain name. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an email, 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account from our company and you want to direct either your website or your emails to another provider, it's going to take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up won't take more than several hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will stay active after it's changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for each of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are handled via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record will be as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any problems if you wish to move your website or emails to a different provider while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you can also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.