The word “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but a number of services that offer a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one 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 deals with the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then 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 e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
If you have a Linux hosting through us, you'll be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change particular records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you want to use the email services of another provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated services which we offer, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing 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 direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.