The word “hosting” does not describe one service, but a variety of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can 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 would like to move either your website or your e-mails to a different provider, it will take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names 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 want to use a different e-mail 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 can 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 any record that you modify or set up won't take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through us, you're going to be able to view and edit the A and MX records for each of the domains or subdomains that you host within the account. The Hepsia Control Panel, which you'll get to handle the account, offers an sophisticated, though easy-to-use tool in which all hosts are going to be listed in alphabetical order and you're going to be able to change their records with no more than several clicks. If you have to create a new record, it's going to be equally simple - choose the domain/subdomain, type in the IP address or mail server record and you are going to be ready. Additionally, you will be able to set different priority for the MX records that you create in case that you decide to use a third-party email provider and they ask you to set up additional records other than the 2 standard ones. If you encounter any issues, you will find a in-depth Help section with videos in which you can see first-hand how to create or modify any record.