Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to redirect 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 address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is frequently confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

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 just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included 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. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.