Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will enable you to point 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 domain address it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux cloud package through our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.