Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added such a 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 will assist you with this task. If you have built a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to choose 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're going to be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.