Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account allows you to point 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 Internet domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a Linux shared hosting through our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.