The term “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but several services which provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a 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 concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every web hosting which we provide, allows you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even when you have no previous experience with such matters.