Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected 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 rather than a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a website hosting service from our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to do it.

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 each Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.