Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared hosting is extremely simple. 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 just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case 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 redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're 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 handled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.