The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies 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 emails for the domain address. For 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 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 email will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

With a web hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly through our innovative Hepsia hosting CP. Editing the default records requires two clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any troubles. We've got an in depth help section that will make things even easier. If you wish to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the standard two, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have total control of your domains and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers we offer, you're going to have total control over the records of all domains 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 editing any record requires just a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain 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 could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.