The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a variety of services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, for instance, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. The truth is, each domain has a couple 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 specifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 name has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account from our company and you would like to move either your site or your e-mails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally simply 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're 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 e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it will not take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or set up isn't going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.