The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a variety of services which offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. Actually, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

With a hosting plan from us, you are going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily through our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not experience any complications. We've got an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you want to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your emails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have total control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, you will have complete control over the records of all domain names 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 Control Panel and editing any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change 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 every single one.