The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but several services that offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In reality, 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 first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain address. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, 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. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify certain records through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool is going to enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with simply a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you are going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.