The term “hosting” does not describe just one service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a site and e-mails, for instance, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. The truth is, every domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain name. For instance, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an e-mail, 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. In case you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly using our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records takes two clicks and the creation of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any troubles. We have a comprehensive help section that makes things even easier. If you wish to switch your e-mail provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails 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'll have full control of your domain names and subdomains and you'll be able to handle their A and MX records easily and at any time.