Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.