The term “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a set of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name 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 site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. For example, 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 e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain 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 e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every web hosting plan we offer, will allow you to view, change 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 from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, 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 will contact the next one. Through our advanced tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even when you have no prior 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 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses 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 editing any record requires only a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name 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 default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.