Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got within a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the Internet 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 create CNAME records in case you have a cloud website hosting service through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have 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 simply a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our detailed help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can simply contact us for help.