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 will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every cloud website hosting plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available inside the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.