The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a variety of services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. In reality, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux hosting which we provide, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails 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. Through our innovative tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domains 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 Control Panel and changing any record requires just a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.