Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable 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 name it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another provider if you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared hosting package from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit 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

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will require no more than a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will discover a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as easy and takes a click. If you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or simply contact us for help.