The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but several services which offer a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and e-mails, for instance, are two independent services even though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. The truth is, every single domain has a several 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 address is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is 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 name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting we provide, will allow you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.