Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first provider. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet 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 another company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud web hosting through our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it takes only a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter will be redirected to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and takes a click. If you experience any troubles, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or simply contact us for assistance.