Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every website hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create such records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, 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 create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.