The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a variety of services which provide various functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In fact, each domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a website 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. In case 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 using separate records is that the two services use 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 Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting which we offer, will allow you to see, change and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, as an illustration, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.