Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 convenience, you can see a short video within the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.