The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but several services which provide a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. The truth is, each domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every website hosting service we offer you, allows you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is really easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are managed using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section devoted 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. Modifying any record will be as easy as typing in 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 problems if you want to direct your website or e-mails to an alternative provider while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you can also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.