Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming you have created an Internet site 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 Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like 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 couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from 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 create a new record, you have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.