Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is frequently confused with the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have set up a website 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 Cloud Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux cloud website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted 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 basic steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company which 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 on-line 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 redirect it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated server which we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.