Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is frequently confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using 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 example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from 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 just need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any issues. 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 feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.