Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note 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 Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site 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, 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single semi-dedicated server that we offer, is very easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.