The definition of “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a variety of services that offer different functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, for example, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific 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 e-mails for the domain address. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site 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 sent to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every shared service which we offer you, will enable you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, you're going to have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes only a couple of clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.