CNAME Record

Does your site require the use of CNAME records? What exactly are CNAME Records? How to set one?

Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another company when 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 Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a cloud web hosting plan with our company. We will 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. Creating a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - select 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 simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you will 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 much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can 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'll require literally only a click to get it done.