The word “hosting” doesn't describe just one service, but several services that provide various functions to a domain name. Having a website and emails, for instance, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. Actually, every single domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which defines 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 e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record can 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 has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services work with different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one company and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud service from our company, you are going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Assuming that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails directed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool is going to allow you to have a domain name 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 at all. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.