The definition of “hosting” does not describe only one service, but several services which provide various functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, 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, every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever 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. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any troubles. We've got a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you'd like to switch your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have complete control over your domain names and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, you're going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires only a few clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.