CNAME Records

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Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting package through our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, select 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 is going to be active almost right away. This way, you will 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 e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to do it.