The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, for example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former 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 manages the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting service that we offer, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, for example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated services, will enable you to view the A and MX records for each of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if required, to edit any of them or create new ones. Managing these records is quite easy as all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as simple as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes only a few more clicks and in case you experience any troubles, you can check out our video tutorials on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to offer you total control over all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are switching your e-mails to a different service provider and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.