The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a variety of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, for example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name 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 specifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. 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 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. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting plan through us, you are going to be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with simply a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any one of your domain names or subdomains is really easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are handled through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record will be as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you will not encounter any problems if you decide to point your website or e-mails to a different service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the instructions of the new provider.