Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another company if you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a cloud hosting package from our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. This way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where 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 take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are 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 in the Control Panel concerning 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.