Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider in case you have set up a website 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 Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic 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 find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. In case you have never 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 on how to create 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 hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.