Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to direct 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 directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider in case you have created 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 company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.