Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account allows you to forward 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's being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers 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 would like to create a CNAME record, it will take no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will discover a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our detailed 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 help.