The word “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but several services which offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case 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 employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux website hosting plan that we offer you, allows you to see, change and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, for instance, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes just a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.