The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but several services which offer numerous functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for example, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, every single domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site 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. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux website hosting which we offer, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Additionally you can set the priority for each 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 in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, you're going to have 100 % 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 of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you change 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 one.