The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services which offer different functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. The truth is, every domain name 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, which defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would 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 forwarded to that company. When 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 employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your site or your emails to another company, it's going to take you literally only 2 clicks to do so. 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 choose to use a different email 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. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up isn't 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, which shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated packages which we provide, you are going to have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.