Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have within a hosting account will enable you to forward 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 can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our cloud 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 create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
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 easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than 3 clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 see a short video inside the Control Panel about 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.