Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company if you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create 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 edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.