Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will permit you to forward 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 name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through 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 provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, is quite simple to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a few hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you aren't sure what you should do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.