The word “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. The truth is, 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, that specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every shared hosting that we offer you, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an example, you wish to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every 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 in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're going to 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

With the semi-dedicated servers we offer, you are going to have total 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 from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.