The term “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a number of services which offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, each and every domain has a number of 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 is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux hosting which we offer you, will allow you to see, change and create A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also 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. With our innovative tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no prior 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 full control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain 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 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 two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.