Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to direct 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 Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a website using another company, 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, like 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 Hosting

You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, 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 create a new record, you just have to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.