Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note 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 name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud website hosting from our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and then just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. This way, you will have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company emails, and 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 in which 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 will take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it requires no more than a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any issues, you can go through our comprehensive help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.