The word “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a variety of services which offer different functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. Actually, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an e-mail, 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 email will then be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a Linux hosting through our company, you are going to be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change particular records using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails pointed to another service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to allow you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address at all. If you decide to use the email services of another provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with simply a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to view the A and MX records for every one of the domain addresses or subdomains in your account and if needed, to edit any of them or create new ones. Managing these records is very easy since all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and if you experience any difficulties, 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 no previous experience, yet advanced enough to provide you with complete control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your emails to a different provider and they ask you to set up more than 2 different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.