Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is generally confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than 3 clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, 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 enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video within the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.