The term “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a variety of services which offer different functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a couple 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, that specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a Linux shared hosting service through our company, you'll be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails pointed to another company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you are going to 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 of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires just a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing 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 each one.