The definition of “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but several services which provide a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain name. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, 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 browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux shared hosting we offer, will allow you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any 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 in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, for example, you wish to use the email services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans we offer, you are going to have complete 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 via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes as little as a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.