Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in the hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud web hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could 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 addresses, and a lot more.