The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but several services which provide numerous functions to a domain address. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two independent services though in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In reality, every domain name has a couple of 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 deals with the e-mails for the domain. As an example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will then be sent to the correct server. The idea behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer you, allows you to see, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, for instance, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.