The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a variety of services that offer various functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record is 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will 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 e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux web hosting package we provide, will enable you to view, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you are 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 won't take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single 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 is going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even when you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any one of your domains or subdomains is extremely easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are managed by using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any problems if you choose to direct your website or e-mails to some other provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.