Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is often confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every Linux cloud website hosting package, will enable you to set up CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few clicks. If you're not sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is not likely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you're pointing 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 domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.