Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider when you have created a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our cloud web hosting services is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to create this type of 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're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick 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 watch a short video within the Control Panel about how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.