Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you've got within a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's frequently confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux website hosting service from our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated service that we offer, is very easy to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you should do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.