The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a variety of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services even though 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 manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 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 then be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
With a shared hosting package from us, you'll be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily through our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records takes 2 clicks and the setup of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any issues. We also have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you want to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you will have 100 % control over your domains and subdomains and you are going to be able to handle their A and MX records 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 full control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires only a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing 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.