The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a set of services that offer various functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, for example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. In reality, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record is 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 domain name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may 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, which comes with each and every Linux shared hosting which we provide, will permit you to see, change and create A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, you will have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing 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.