Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will permit you to direct 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 domain name it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud hosting service from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and then simply click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. 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 e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create 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 choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video inside the CP regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.