The word “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services which provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, 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, every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain name. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 name 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 then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. Provided that a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another company if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even allow 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 domain name in any way. If you decide to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with just a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, allows you to view the A and MX records for each of the domains or subdomains in your account and if required, to edit any of them or create new ones. Controlling these records is incredibly easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes just a few more clicks and if you experience any troubles, you can check out our video tutorials on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with no previous experience, yet advanced enough to give you full control over all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're moving your emails to a different service provider and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.