The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In fact, every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website 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. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud package which we offer, will permit you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any of your domains or subdomains is incredibly easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record will be as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any issues if you choose to point your website or e-mails to some other service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you can also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.