The term “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but several services which provide different functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, 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 browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could 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 shared service that we provide, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an example, you would like to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated services that we offer, you will have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires only a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify 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 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.