The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services that provide various functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain 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 website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time 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. 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 concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to switch either your website or your emails to a different company, it'll take you literally just two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to 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 set up more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of every 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, which shows how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.