The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a number of services which provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In reality, 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 second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. As an example, 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 email, 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 Internet browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a Linux shared hosting package through our company, you are going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails pointed to another service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with just a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also 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 packages which we provide, you are going to have 100 % 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 each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing 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 every single one.