The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a number of services that provide various functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, for example, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain address 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 can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company, you will be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to change certain records using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain at all. If you choose to use the email services of another provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans which we provide, you are going to have complete control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain to the other company 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 change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.