The term “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services that provide various functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for example, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website 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 forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting which we offer you, will enable you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to see and update the A and MX records for each of the domain names or subdomains which you host inside the account. The Hepsia Control Panel, which you'll get to handle the account, comes with an state-of-the-art, albeit easy-to-use tool where all hosts are going to be listed in alphabetical order and you are going to be able to modify their records with no more than a few mouse clicks. If you have to create a new record, it's going to be equally easy - select the domain/subdomain, type in the IP address or mail server record and you'll be all set. Additionally, you will be able to set different priority for the MX records that you create in case you decide to use a third-party e-mail provider and they ask you to create additional records other than the two default ones. If you encounter any difficulties, we have a detailed Help section with videos in which you can see first-hand how to create or modify any record.