Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being directed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy 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 such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up a website through 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, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.