Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have created a website 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 Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud web hosting packages is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct 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

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting package that we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.