Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux hosting package through our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can 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, we have a short video tutorial where you could 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'll require literally only a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we offer, is very simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address 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 will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive 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. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.