Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will permit 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 is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider when you have created a site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud web hosting services is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features 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 within your account in only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.