Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first hosting provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is frequently mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you build 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 an Internet site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.