Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is often confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

In case you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet 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 example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily 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 will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.