The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain name. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can 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 Internet 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 be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account with our company and you want to move either your site or your e-mails to a different service provider, it's going to take you literally only two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change 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 2, it is not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create is not going to take more than several 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's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting services, will permit you to view the A and MX records for each of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if required, to edit any of them or set up new ones. Managing these records is quite easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes just a few more clicks and if you experience any difficulties, you can check out our video tutorials on how to create A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet advanced enough to provide you with 100 % control over all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are moving your emails to a different company and they ask you to set up more than two different MX records, you may choose the priority of each one.