Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have created a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case 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 simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built a site using another provider, 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply need to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.