The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but several services that offer various functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. In reality, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address 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 directed to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account through our company and you wish to switch either your site or your e-mails to a different provider, it'll take you literally simply 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it won't 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 certain MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is very easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are handled through our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you won't experience any troubles if you decide to switch your site or emails to another provider while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you can also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.