Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have created 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 Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, 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 website using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.