The word “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a variety of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. 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 site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address 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 e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company, you will be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails directed to any other company if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you decide to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting services that we provide, you will have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which 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 modifying any record requires only a couple of clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain address 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 address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When 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.