The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. In reality, each domain has a several 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 latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site 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 directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The idea 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
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting that we offer, will allow you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an illustration, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which 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 Control Panel and changing any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue 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. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.