Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's frequently mistaken for the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider when you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every web hosting plan, allows you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although 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, type in the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect 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's not going to require more than 3 clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose 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 benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.