Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available inside the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.