The definition of “hosting” does not describe one service, but several services which provide different functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most of the people think of them as one single service. Actually, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that identifies where the site for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. For instance, an A record is 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 Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting through our company, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a given domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to change particular records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you decide to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.