The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services that provide different functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In fact, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies 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 emails for the domain name. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time 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 forwarded to that company. In case 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 working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux web hosting service that we offer you, will permit you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to 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 couple of clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, for example, you would like to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting service we offer, you will have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are modifying 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 every single one.