Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is frequently mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have created an Internet 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 provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux cloud hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 within your account in only a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various options - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. 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 may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, 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 won't take you more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create 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 inside the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.