The word “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain name. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website 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 then be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning 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-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting we offer, will allow you to view, change and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you are going to have 100 % 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 one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue 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're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.