Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you have within a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the website 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 with our Linux cloud packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site using a different provider 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 an online 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 redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.