The word “hosting” does not describe only one service, but several services that offer different functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. Actually, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record can 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 Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every shared website hosting we provide, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll 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 mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.