Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is generally confused with the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every cloud hosting, will enable you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available within the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select 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 convenience, you can watch a short video within the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.