The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a set of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, for instance, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In fact, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each 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. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services employ 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 Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly via our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records takes two clicks and the setup of a new record requires just a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any issues. We have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you'd like to switch your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will handle 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 total control over your domain names and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.