Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in the hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux cloud web hosting package with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a number of basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record with ease. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.