Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider when you have created a website with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our hosting plans is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a website by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 watch a short video in the CP regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.