Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is often confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using 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 instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated server which we provide, is quite simple to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on 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 assistance at any time.