Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account allows you to forward 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 Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep 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 not a number because it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet 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 another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a site through another provider, 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 company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated server that we provide, is quite easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick 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 address 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 completely active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you have 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 are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.