The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two individual 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, each and every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time 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 forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ 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 Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux web hosting we offer, will permit you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, for example, you want to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are maintained using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as entering 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 encounter any issues if you choose to move your site or e-mails to some other service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you could also create additional MX records and set a specific priority in accordance with the instructions of the new provider.