Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting 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 address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various options - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will require no more than 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 devoted to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be forwarded to and save the modification. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.