Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail 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's often confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud website hosting with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel unclear 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 where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and much more.