The word “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a set of services which provide various functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain name has a number of 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 name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website 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 directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily using our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any difficulties. We also have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting packages that we offer, you'll have 100 % 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 each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires simply a few clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address 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 name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.