The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a set of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular 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 deals with the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 domain address 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 email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux shared web hosting package that we offer, will enable you to see, change and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain within your account. Through 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 will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for each 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 in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease 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 packages we provide, you are going to have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want 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, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When 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 each and every one.