Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first 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 often wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider 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 company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a cloud web hosting service with our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. This way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, plus much 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'll take you literally only a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to create 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 CP, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in 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.