The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a set of services that provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In reality, every single domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting account through our company and you would like to direct either your site or your e-mails to another provider, it will take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides 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 edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it won't 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 higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up isn't going to take more than several hours and if required, 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 is modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is incredibly easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any difficulties if you choose to direct your site or emails to another provider while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.