The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a number of services that offer various functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In reality, each domain name has a several 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 defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site 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. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you would like to direct either your website or your emails to another service provider, it'll take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers 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 modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it will not take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.