The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services which offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, every single domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would 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 name has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The idea 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 e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared hosting which we provide, will allow you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain in 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 corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any troubles if you decide to point your website or e-mails to another company while keeping the second service with our company. When needed, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.