The word “hosting” does not describe one service, but a number of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. In fact, every single 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, that identifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles 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 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 browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every shared hosting which we provide, will allow you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, for instance, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you modify 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 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.