The word “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a set of services that offer various functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site 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 forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be directed 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 site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting from us, you will be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. So long as a given domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to change particular records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to another service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even 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 in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you're going to have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.