Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you've got in the hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of another provider in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this kind 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 will aid you with this task. If you have set up a site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.