Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names 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 of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another provider in case you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the site 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 would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built 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 provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, is very easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that 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 easy and you can set up 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'll propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you should do, we've prepared a detailed 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 anytime.