The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through us, you will be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change particular records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you decide 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 that with simply a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any of your domain names or subdomains is really easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are managed via our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record will be as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not encounter any difficulties if you want to move your website or e-mails to some other service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you could also create additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the instructions of the new provider.