The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a variety of services which provide different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. In reality, every single domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain name. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting plan from us, you will be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly via our innovative Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any troubles. We've got a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you wish to switch your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control of your domain names and subdomains and you are going to be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any one of your domain names or subdomains is incredibly easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are maintained via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you may click on any one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any problems if you decide to switch your site or emails to an alternative provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you can also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.