Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
In case you have a hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.