The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services which provide different functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. In fact, each domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every cloud hosting plan which we provide, will permit you to see, change and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans we provide, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name 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 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.