Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got within a hosting account will enable you to direct 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 address it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider if you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our cloud web hosting plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the workers 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 by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will require just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be directed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can simply contact us for assistance.