Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is frequently mistaken for the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have set up a website with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it takes just a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will discover a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be directed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away 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. If you experience any troubles, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or simply contact us for help.