Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and retain a working 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 because it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created a website via another provider, 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all 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 watch a short video in the Control Panel concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.