The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services that offer various functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. Actually, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the former is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain address. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can 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 browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every cloud hosting we offer you, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an example, you wish to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, 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 will contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even when you have no previous experience with such matters.