CNAME Record

Does your web site require the use of CNAME records? What precisely are CNAME Records? How to create one?

Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our cloud hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.