Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created 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 Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our shared hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to 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 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 inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create this kind 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 are there, all 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.