The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services which provide different functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every domain name has a couple of 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 specifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles 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. Whenever you open a website 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. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting package from us, you're going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly through our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records requires two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any complications. We also have a large help section that'll make things even easier. If you want to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have full control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans we provide, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires only a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you change 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 default two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.