The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but several services that provide different functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you want to point either your website or your emails to an alternative provider, it's going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up is not going to 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 remain active after it's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you are going to have 100 % 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 from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires only a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.