The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but several services that offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In fact, each and every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site 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 address. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, 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. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to switch either your website or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it will take you literally simply two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit 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 standard two, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up isn't 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 indicates how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.