The definition of “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but a number of services that offer different functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. In reality, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies 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 would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time 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 directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

With a web hosting package from us, you will be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily via our advanced Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records takes 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any troubles. We have an in depth help section that'll make things even easier. If you wish to change your e-mail provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control over your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.