The word “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but a number of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site 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 web browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every shared hosting plan which we offer you, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you are going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans that we provide, you're going to have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains 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 CP and editing any record requires simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.