Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our shared website hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to select the hostname which will 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. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive 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 available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and much more.