Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a shared web hosting from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you will have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which 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'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 single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the CP 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.