Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up 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 few clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.