The word “hosting” does not describe a single service, but a number of services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a site and e-mails, for example, are two independent services although in the general case they come together, so a lot of people see them as one single service. In fact, each and every domain name has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain name. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one service provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting package from us, you will be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly via our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records takes two clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any issues. We've got an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.