Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain address, 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 would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have 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 assist you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated server we provide, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a few hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.