Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting packages is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many options - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online 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, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.