The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services that provide numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. The truth is, each domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be 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 domain 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 e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting service which we offer you, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, for example, you wish to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, 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 is going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you're going to have complete 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 modifying any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update 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 may also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.