The word “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but several services which provide various functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. The truth is, each and every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every 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 directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

With a web hosting plan from us, you'll be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily using our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records takes 2 clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any difficulties. We also have a large help section that makes things even easier. If you want to change your e-mail provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have total control over your domains and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.