The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a set of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, for example, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, each and every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an e-mail, 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. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud hosting package through us, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify certain records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to another provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do that with only a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages which we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are 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 each and every one.