Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider in case you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux hosting, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.

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 effortlessly. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, 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 set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.