The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a variety of services that provide different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies 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 name. For example, an A record can 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 be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
With a shared website hosting package from us, you'll be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any difficulties. We have an in depth help section that will make things even easier. If you wish to switch your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you'll have total control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we provide, you are going to have complete 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 every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.