The word “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a variety of services which offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so many people consider them as one single service. Actually, each and 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, which specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain address. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not experience any issues. We also have a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, allows you to see the A and MX records for every one of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if needed, to update any of them or set up new ones. Handling these records is incredibly 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. Creating a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and if you experience any difficulties, you can check out our instructional videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by individuals with no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to give you complete control over all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your emails to a different provider and they ask you to set up more than two different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.