The word “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a variety of services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which identifies where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting package from our company, you will be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily via our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any problems. We've got a comprehensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you wish to change your email provider and you have to set up several 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 ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have full control of your domains and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records easily and at any time.