The word “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a set of services that offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain address. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would 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. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease by using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP. Editing the default records takes 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you will not experience any problems. We've got an in depth help section that'll make things even easier. If you would like to switch your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard 2, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have total control over your domains and subdomains and you'll be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you are going to have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you edit 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 standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.