The word “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a number of services which offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website 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. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a Linux shared web hosting service through us, you will be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails pointed to another provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting service which we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.