Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will 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 Control Panel included with each and every 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, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within 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 Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in 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 few hours it will propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth 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 at any time.