The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a variety of services which offer various functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. In reality, every single domain name has a several 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 site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you want to point either your website or your e-mails to a different service provider, it's going to take you literally just two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will 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 wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain 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 each of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are handled by using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as entering 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 issues if you decide to direct your site or emails to a different company while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you can also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.