Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have created a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.