The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. In fact, each and every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site 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. When you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with 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 Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting package from our company, you'll be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease by using our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any complications. We have an in depth help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will manage your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages we provide, you are going to have complete 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 Control Panel and modifying any record takes only a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain 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 default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.