Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have created a site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud website hosting with our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up 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 a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a 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 effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than 3 clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when 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 watch a short video within the Control Panel concerning 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.