Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep 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 and never a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a cloud web hosting through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click the Save button. The process is as simple 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 domains 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 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 want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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