Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to forward 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 simply can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know 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 forward a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have created an Internet site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type 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'll help you with this task. If you have built a site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain address 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 very 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 is going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.