The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a set of services that offer numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site 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 name. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time 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. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every web hosting plan which we provide, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no previous experience with such matters.