CNAME Records

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Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have created an Internet site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will find 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 an Internet 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 company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside 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 set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name 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's not going to require more than three clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up 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 inside the Control Panel on 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.