Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider in case you have created a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site by using a different company 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 are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.