The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a number of services that offer different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. The truth is, every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an e-mail, 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud web hosting plan from us, you are going to be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails directed to any other provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you decide to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.