Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our cloud web hosting services is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features 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 basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company website 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 want to create a website through a different provider 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'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.