Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will allow you to direct 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 domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have created a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a number of easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and then simply click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated service which we provide, is very simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain 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 a few hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a comprehensive 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. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.