The term “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but a variety of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a Linux website hosting through our company, you are going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain at all. If you choose to use the email services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company, you will be able to view and update the A and MX records for every one of the domains or subdomains which you host in the account. The Hepsia CP, which you'll get to manage the account, comes with an state-of-the-art, although easy-to-use tool in which all hosts will be listed in alphabetical order and you will be able to edit their records with no more than a few mouse clicks. If you have to set up a new record, it will be equally simple - pick the domain/subdomain, enter the IP address or mail server record and you're going to be all set. Additionally, you'll be able to set different priority for the MX records which you create in case that you decide to use a third-party e-mail provider and they ask you to set up additional records besides the 2 default ones. If you experience any problems, we've got a detailed Help section with videos where you can see first-hand how to setup or modify any record.