Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all 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 point your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is generally confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux shared web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel 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 in your account in only a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various options - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create an Internet site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name 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 may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you should do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.