Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain you own through one provider to the servers of another company assuming 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 company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared website hosting service with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain to a subdomain within 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 three clicks to create such a 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 pick 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 convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.