Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable 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 Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is generally confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have created a website with the latter. That way, the site 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 through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you only 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 Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to pick 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 all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.