The term “hosting” does not describe a single service, but several services which provide a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. Actually, every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting package from us, you're going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly through our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Editing the default records takes 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any difficulties. We also have a large help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have total control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you are going to 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, included with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will allow you to see the A and MX records for each of the domain addresses or subdomains in your account and if needed, to update any of them or set up new ones. Controlling these records is very easy as 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 only a few more clicks and if you experience any issues, you can check out our educational videos on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to offer you full control of all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are moving your emails to a different service provider and they ask you to set up more than two different MX records, you may choose the priority of each one.