Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another company when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a shared hosting plan with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unclear 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 decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.