The definition of “hosting” does not describe a particular service, but several services that offer various functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. The truth is, every domain name 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 website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain. For example, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time 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 directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the e-mail will be directed to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a given domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change specific records through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails pointed to any other company if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool is going to enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do that with just a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.