Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in the hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting package from our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you can view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you are 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 e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could 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 will take you literally just a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.