The term “hosting” does not describe only one service, but several services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. Actually, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an email, 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. When 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 using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every shared hosting which we offer, will permit you to see, change and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, for instance, you wish to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create 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 e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.