Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and keep 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 rather than a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.