Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will allow you to redirect 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 is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every Linux shared package, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available inside the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this kind of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated package we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address 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 a couple of hours it's going to propagate around the world. If you aren't 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're both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.