The term “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but several services which offer different functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people see them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain name. As an example, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then 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 website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting we offer, allows you to see, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you wish to use the email services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you will be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.