The word “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but a set of services which provide various functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In reality, every single domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 Internet 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 e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting we offer, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, for example, you wish to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to handle 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 offer, you are going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires only a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are 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.