The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a number of services that provide numerous functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so a lot of people think of them as one single service. In fact, every single domain name has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain name. For instance, an A record is 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 address 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 email will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily by using our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record requires only a couple of more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any issues. We've got an extensive help section that will make things even easier. If you wish to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when somebody 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 complete control of your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.