The term “hosting” does not describe one service, but a variety of services which provide various functions to a domain. Having a site and emails, as an example, are two separate services although in the general case they come together, so most people think of them as one single service. In reality, each domain has a several DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that manages each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the site for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that deals with the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record can be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name 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 email will then 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 provider and the e-mails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting from us, you will be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed 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 address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.