The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services that offer different functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two independent services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name has a several 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 website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time 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 directed to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be sent 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 website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every web hosting plan we provide, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.