Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow 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 Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email 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 as it is frequently confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of another provider in case you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails 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 that 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 a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can 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 Servers
You are going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.