Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit 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 redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux cloud packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated 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 a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, 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 a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward 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

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it requires just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you will simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is equally simple and takes a click. If you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can just contact us for assistance.