Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider when you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud hosting package through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. This way, you'll have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain 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 modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one 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 redirect a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel concerning 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.