Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address 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 functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have created a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included 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, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If 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 simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created 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 company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated server which we provide, is very simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it will propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.