Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this kind 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 will assist you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, is very easy to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy 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 a few hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you should 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 located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.