The term “hosting” does not describe one service, but a number of services that provide numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, 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. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
With a cloud hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease via our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you won't encounter any troubles. We also have an extensive help section that will make things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your emails first when someone 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 complete control of your domain names and subdomains and you will be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to see the A and MX records for every one of the domains or subdomains in your account and if needed, to change any of them or create new ones. Managing these records is incredibly easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and if you experience any troubles, you can check out our instructional videos on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet advanced enough to give you 100 % control over all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are pointing your e-mails to a different company and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.