Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain 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 mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared website hosting with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and 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 decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain 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), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.