Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another provider when you have created a site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP 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 simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a site using a different provider 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 a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it takes just a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP 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'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter will be pointed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any issues, you can go through our detailed help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for assistance.