The term “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain address. For example, 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 e-mail, 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you would like to point either your website or your emails to an alternative provider, it's going to take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP 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 wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it is not going to 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 greater the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or create will not take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.