The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but several services that provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In reality, each domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain name. For instance, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site 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 browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting plan from us, you will be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease through our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records requires 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't encounter any issues. We also have a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you're going to have total control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated packages which we offer, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.