Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to direct 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 it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web 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 domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every 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, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, 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 provider, such as 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 Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will require just a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section devoted to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter will be redirected to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally easy and takes a click. If you experience any problems, you can go through our in-depth help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.