Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to redirect 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 domain name it's being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider when you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared web hosting with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find 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 require literally only a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, is quite simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to select the domain name 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 name 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 Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you have 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 are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.