Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have created a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse 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 offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid 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 would like 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 couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package that we offer, is quite simple to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple 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's going to propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you need to 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 situated in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.