Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will allow you to direct 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 is being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which 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 site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover 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 built a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated package which we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a few hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.