MX And A Records

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The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but a set of services which provide different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. Actually, every 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, that identifies where the website 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 is 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 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 then be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes only a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.