Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have in a hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of another company if 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 company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records if you have a hosting through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a few easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you will 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, and 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 where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only 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 forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.