Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable 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's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is regularly confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
In case you have a hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll 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 plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built a website 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 company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated service we offer, is very easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a few hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you need 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. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.