CNAME Records

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Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our shared website hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.