The term “hosting” does not describe only one service, but several services which offer various functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In fact, every single domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies 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 address. For instance, 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 forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every shared plan that we offer, will permit you to view, change and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, for example, you would like to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.