Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded 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 cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's often mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this sort 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 will aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using 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 company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in 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 several hours it is going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.