Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account will permit you to redirect 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 name it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our shared hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many opportunities - if you create 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 decide to set up an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.