Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional 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's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every website hosting service, will permit you to set up CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you aren't certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domains and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this sort of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 convenience, you can see a short video within the CP regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.