The definition of “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. In fact, each domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind working with 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-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting which we provide, will permit you to see, change and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an example, you wish to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your e-mails 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're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are maintained using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on any 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 even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you simply won't experience any problems if you want to direct your website or e-mails to an alternative service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you may also create additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.