Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud hosting with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.