Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take only a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be forwarded to and save the modification. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for assistance.