Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's frequently mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
In case you have a hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain that you need, choose 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 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 fully active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.