Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow you to point 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 Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider if you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting package from our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to 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 can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated package that we provide, is quite simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, pick 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 process 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 completely active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.