Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared hosting with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose 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 get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.