The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a set of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In reality, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can 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 address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting service that we offer you, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated servers, allows you to see the A and MX records for each of the domain addresses or subdomains in your account and if required, to edit any of them or set up new ones. Managing these records is very easy because all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes a few more clicks and in case you experience any issues, you can check out our video tutorials on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to give you 100 % control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're switching your emails to a different provider and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you may choose the priority of each one.