Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It is also 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 domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a website hosting plan through our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you're going to 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 unclear 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 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 Servers
You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.