Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the 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 pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another company in case 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 provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared hosting service with our company. We are going to supply 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 basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward 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 will not 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 are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 see a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.