The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services that provide various functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an email, 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 Internet 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 could have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud package from us, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. So long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify certain records using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails directed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you want to use the email services of another provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can 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 hosting packages that we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.