The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a variety of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In reality, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 name 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 forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you want to point either your site or your emails to an alternative service provider, it will take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do it. 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 will be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create is not going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any of your domain names or subdomains is extremely easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are handled via our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record will be 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 will not encounter any issues if you wish to switch your website or emails to a different provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you could also create additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.