Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply 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. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared hosting through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a few basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot 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 can 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 take you literally simply a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel 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.