Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, is quite simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you should do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.