Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will permit you to redirect 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 domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. 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 an Internet site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every shared plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is not likely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you are forwarding 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 over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.