The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services which provide different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. In reality, every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website 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 forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a Linux shared package through us, you'll be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain at all. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do this with only a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domains or subdomains is extremely easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are maintained through our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any troubles if you decide to move your website or e-mails to a different service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also create additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the instructions of the new provider.