The word “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so most people see them as one single service. In reality, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website or send an email, 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 then be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting plan from us, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease using our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any complications. We also have a large help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default two, you can pick their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your emails 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're going to have 100 % control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.