Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first 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 frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another company assuming you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, 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 provide with each and every Linux shared hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this sort of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very 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 will see all records for every domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.