The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain name 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 site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain address. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever 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 be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will allow 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 in any way. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with just a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you're going to have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.