How to make a CNAME DNS entry on Bluehost, using Google Apps as an example
Bluehost's cpanel can create cnames, it just doesn't call the whole process by its real names.
Let's say you want to use Google Apps.
1) visit http://google.com/a/ to get your account set up.
2) To verify your domain, Google gives you a code and you can either make an html file or make a CNAME entry. Copy the code Google gives you.
3) Go to bluehost's cpanel
4) subdomains
5) paste that code into the subdomain field
6) make up a directory name, you'll never use it. foo is a perfectly good name.
7) click "Create"
8) "googlefffffffffsplat37493.yourdomain.com has been created!" now go back.
9) click "Manage Redirection"
10) On the left is your subdomain. In more standard BIND parlance, this is the "Record-Key" part of your CNAME. The "Value" part, where you want to redirect to, is um, where, you, want, to, redirect, to. In the google apps verification example, you would type in google.com.
Once you're verified, to set up gmail for your domain, you would set up a subdomain "mail", pointing to some random, made up directory name, then "Manage Redirection" to point to google.com/a/yourdomain.com
