Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's often confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.

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 effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on 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.