The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but several services which offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. Actually, each domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website 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 name. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an e-mail, 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 browser request or the email will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly by using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you won't encounter any difficulties. We have an extensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you'll have full control of your domains and subdomains and you are going to be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages we offer, you'll have total 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 from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes simply a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.