The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but several services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. In reality, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website 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 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 e-mail, 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every cloud website hosting which we offer, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an illustration, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, 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 is going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is very easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are managed via our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you simply won't experience any difficulties if you decide to move your website or e-mails to an alternative service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you could also create additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.