The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a set of services which offer various functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. In reality, each domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific 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 emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account through our company and you would like to direct either your site or your e-mails to another service provider, it'll take you literally just 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to 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 set up more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up isn't going to take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting service we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while 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. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.