Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you've got within a 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 Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have built a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter is going to be directed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our in-depth help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.