The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services that offer numerous functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services though 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 several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet 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 can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every website hosting we offer you, allows you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even when you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes just a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary 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 may also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.