The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services which offer numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an illustration, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. Actually, every single domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

With a hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not experience any troubles. We also have an extensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you'll have 100 % control of your domains and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.