The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a variety of services which offer various functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. The truth is, each domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines 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 e-mails for the domain name. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every web hosting that we offer you, will enable you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains 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 CP and modifying any record requires simply a few clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.