The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services that provide various functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies 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 emails for the domain name. For instance, 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 domain address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded 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 reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ 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're going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily via our advanced Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records takes 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any problems. We also have an extensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have 100 % control over your domain names and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we offer, you will 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 one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change 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 default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.