The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but several services that offer various functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. The truth is, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would 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 address has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services employ 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 Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud hosting service we offer you, will allow you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated service we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.