Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, 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 plans is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various options - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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