The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a set of services that provide different functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In reality, every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, 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 Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account through our company and you wish to direct either your website or your emails to another provider, it is going to take you literally just two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and modify 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 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 every record that you change or set up 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 reveals how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages which we offer, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes just a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.