The word “hosting” does not describe only one service, but a number of services which provide various functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In fact, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that specifies where the site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the emails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record is 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be 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 address has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will then be forwarded to the correct server. The reasoning behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you may have your website hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux cloud hosting we provide, will enable you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every 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. With our sophisticated tool, you will be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.