Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case you have created a site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our shared hosting packages is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site using a different provider which 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.