CNAME Records

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Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is frequently confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created a site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux shared website hosting packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create 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 inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many opportunities - if you build a company website 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 set up a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain 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'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.