Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider if you have set up a site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted 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 a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many options - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site through a different provider 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, if you have a web-based 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 point it to the main domain address, 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 every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create 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 inside the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.