The word “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a number of services which provide various functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages 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 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 directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting through our company, you're going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to another service provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to view the A and MX records for each of the domains or subdomains in your account and if necessary, to change any of them or set up new ones. Controlling these records is very easy as all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as simple 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 educational videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to offer you full control of all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are moving your e-mails to a different provider and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.