Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got in 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 domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email 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's generally confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud web hosting, will permit you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't certain how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up such records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, 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 take you more than three mouse clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the CP on 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.