Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of options - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect 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 Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three 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 CP, so once you are there, all that 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.