Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line 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 address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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