Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have set up a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a website hosting service from our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select 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 will be active almost right away. This way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot 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 in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.