The word “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site 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 example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time 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 Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account through our company and you want to move either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it will take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can 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 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 reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you are going to have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.