The term “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. Actually, every domain 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, that specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting account from our company and you want to switch either your website or your emails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally only two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will 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 set up more MX records than the standard two, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up isn't going to take more than a few 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 we provide, you're going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.