The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a set of services which offer different functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website 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. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an e-mail, 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting service from us, you are going to be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify particular records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to another provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool is going to allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with only a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting services we offer, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes simply a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required 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 could also keep the main domain name here, while you modify 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 default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.