MX And A Records

The term “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a number of services that provide various functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see 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 handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site 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. For example, 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 directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package which we provide, will allow you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, as an example, you want to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our advanced tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is very easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are managed using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record will be as easy 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 encounter any problems if you decide to switch your website or e-mails to another service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.