Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know 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 primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it takes only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through 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 set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for help.