Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is often confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case 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 company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting with our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. This way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.