The definition of “hosting” does not describe just one service, but several services that provide different 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 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 deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time 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. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting package from us, you'll be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease via our innovative Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't encounter any problems. We've got a large 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 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you're going to have full control of 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 that we offer, you're going to have complete 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 using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.