The term “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a variety of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain address. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever 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 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 use 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 Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting which we offer you, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain within 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 corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, for example, you would like to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails 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. Using our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you will have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains which 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 editing any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.