The word “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a set of services that offer various functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address 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 example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

With a hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily by using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any issues. We have an in depth help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you will have 100 % control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers we offer, you're going to have full 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 every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires just a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.