Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to direct 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 it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider in case you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every cloud web hosting service, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available inside the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated service that we offer, is extremely easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that 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 very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it'll propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you have to do, we have prepared an in depth 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. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.