The word “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but several services which provide different functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, for example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific 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 deals with the emails for the domain address. As an example, 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 email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use 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 Website Hosting

With a website hosting package from us, you will be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily by using our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not experience any troubles. We've got a large help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you'll have full control of your domain names and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.