The word “hosting” does not describe one service, but several services that provide various functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. In fact, each 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, that specifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, 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 web browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Editing the default records requires two clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any issues. We've got an in depth help section that will make things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have full control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, you're going to have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes only a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.