Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created 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 company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting package through our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change 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 Hosting

You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.