Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains 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, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type 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'll help you with this task. If you have created a website through 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.