Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain address, 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 create a CNAME record, it'll take you 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 CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using 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 provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.