The term “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but several services which provide various functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each 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. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
With a shared web hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily using our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records takes two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any issues. We've got an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have complete control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you decide 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, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you edit 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 default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.