The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each 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 browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting plan from us, you will be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains with ease by using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any issues. We've got a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you want to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will handle your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have total control of your domains and subdomains and you will be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you're going to 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 each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.