Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, 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 forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have created a website with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within 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 pick 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 concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.