The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a variety of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. In fact, every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site 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. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting account from our company and you would like to move either your site or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it'll take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with 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 edit 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 create more MX records than the standard two, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or create will not take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will stay active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to view and edit the A and MX records for any one of the domains or subdomains you host inside the account. The Hepsia CP, which you will get to handle the account, provides an innovative, although easy-to-use tool where all hosts are going to be listed in alphabetical order and you're going to be able to modify their records with no more than a couple of mouse clicks. If you have to set up a new record, it'll be just as simple - select the domain/subdomain, enter the IP address or mail server record and you'll be all set. You'll also be able to set different priority for the MX records which you create in case you decide to use a third-party e-mail provider and they ask you to create additional records other than the 2 standard ones. In case you experience any issues, we've got a in-depth Help section with videos where you can see first-hand how to create or modify any record.