The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but several services which offer various functions to a domain name. Having a site and emails, as an illustration, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. In reality, every single domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the e-mails for the domain. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The concept behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one provider and the emails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any troubles. We've got a large help section that'll make things even easier. If you would like to change your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have total control of your domains and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.