The term “hosting” does not describe a single service, but several services that provide numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

With a hosting package from us, you'll be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily via our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records requires two clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any troubles. We also have a large help section that will make things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control over your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.