The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but several services which offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. Actually, each domain name 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 defines where the website for the domain address 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 illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, 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 browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a Linux cloud web hosting package through us, you will be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change specific records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will allow you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and changing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is very easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are maintained using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any issues if you wish to direct your site or emails to a different company while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.