CNAME Records

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Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created a website with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our website hosting packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.