The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a variety of services which provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you would like to switch either your site or your e-mails to another service provider, it is going to take you literally just two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can also 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 modify or create won't take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals 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 we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.