Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated 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 basic steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.