Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've 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 assist you with this task. If you have created a site via another company, 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.