The term “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but several services which offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a website and e-mails, as an example, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most of the people see 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 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. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each 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 forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will then be sent 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 site hosted by one provider and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting through us, you will be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a specific domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to any other company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.