The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but several services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. The truth is, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies 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. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease using our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records requires 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any troubles. We've got a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you want to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you'll have 100 % control over your domains and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers we provide, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.