Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a shared website hosting plan through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a few simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to set up 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 want to modify 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
You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located 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 an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.