Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have set up 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 provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing 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 you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used 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 inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 in the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.