Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a 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 few clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.