Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case 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 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 want 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 few clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.