The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a number of services that offer numerous functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, for instance, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so many people think of them as one single service. In reality, each and every 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, which specifies 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 emails for the domain name. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website 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 directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you may have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting through us, you'll be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.