The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but several services which offer various functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines 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 example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would 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 directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting we offer you, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you will have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When 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 every one.