Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of another provider assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our shared website hosting services is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel 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 simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain 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 clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.