The definition of “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a set of services that offer different functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an illustration, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In reality, every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain name. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website 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. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing 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 Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting package from our company, you're going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains with ease via our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records takes two clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any complications. We also have an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you can choose their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have 100 % control of your domain names and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.