The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services which offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. The truth is, each domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domain names. So long as a particular domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails pointed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to see the A and MX records for any of the domains or subdomains in your account and if required, to update any of them or create new ones. Handling these records is incredibly easy since all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as simple as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes a few more clicks and if you experience any problems, you can check out our instructional videos on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by individuals with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to offer you 100 % control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your emails to a different company and they ask you to set up more than two different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.