Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in the hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have set up a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, 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 from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated server we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a few hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.