The term “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a set of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, for instance, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In fact, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record is 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 address has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a Linux shared website hosting through us, you will be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even enable 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 name the slightest bit. If you want to use the email services of another service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains that 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 Control Panel and modifying any record takes just a few clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.