Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared plans is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. You will 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 set up a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site by using a different company which 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 an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.