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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsHosting Terminology
Does anyone have a resource that in simple terms explains the difference between
A records MX records DNS and basically anything else to do with hosting and or domain names.
I never really understand it and could do with a bit of a reference point.
Thanks
2 Answers

James Barnett
39,199 PointsNot knowing your current level of knowledge about DNS or your exact question I'm just guessing that you may find some of these resources useful:

James Barnett
39,199 PointsWhen I searched for DNS terms
this was the 2nd result on Google