Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of 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 forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every shared website hosting plan, will permit you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated plan that we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, pick 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 CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within several hours it will propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.