Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider if you have created an Internet site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our cloud hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors 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 permit you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name 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's not going to take you more than three clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're 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 enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP concerning 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.