Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.