Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address 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 address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared package from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a number of simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select 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 benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel concerning 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.