Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's often mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have set up a site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a cloud website hosting plan with our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot 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 where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.