The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a variety of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing 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 Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud web hosting service from us, you are going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with simply a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are managed through our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not encounter any problems if you wish to direct your site or e-mails to an alternative service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you can also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority in accordance with the instructions of the new provider.