Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is generally wrongly identified as 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 provider in case you have created a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have built a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than 3 mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are 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 input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.