The definition of “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a number of services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In reality, each domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every shared plan we offer, will permit you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, 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's going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans we provide, you'll have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains 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 changing any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.