Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every shared plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial available in the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are pointing to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domains and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this kind of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than three clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all 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 convenience, you can see a short video within 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.