The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services which provide numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain name 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 defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain name. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux web hosting package we offer, will enable you to see, change and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an example, you wish to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. 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 is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.