Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will enable you to forward 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 Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have set up a website 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 Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud website hosting package through our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can 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, we have a short video tutorial where 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'll take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than 3 clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.