Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable 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 name it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a few simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could 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, we have 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 require literally only a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create 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 inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up this type 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 Control Panel, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.