Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to point 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 domain address it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is frequently confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux web hosting from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a few easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to create 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 choose to edit 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.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record with ease. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.