The word “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services which provide various functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly via our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take 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 encounter any complications. We also have an extensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you'll have total control of your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.