The term “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a variety of services that provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most of the 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 manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can 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 domain name 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 reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every web hosting package which we offer you, will allow you to see, change and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is very easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are handled by using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on any one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any issues if you want to direct your site or e-mails to another company while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you can also create additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.