Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and keep 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 as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a Linux website hosting with our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. This way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses 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 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.