Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.