The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a number of services which offer various functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain name 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 would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting package from us, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any issues. We also have a comprehensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will deal with your emails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you'll have full control of your domains and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans that we provide, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can 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 default 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.