Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a web hosting from our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and much 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 choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting service that we provide, is very simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure 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 is going to be fully active and within a few hours it will propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.