Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up an Internet site 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 provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up 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 names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is 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 just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are 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 convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.