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

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud web hosting package through our company, you'll be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool is going to enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you choose to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with only a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every 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 packages that we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires simply a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email 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. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you edit 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 two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.