Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have set up a site with the latter. That way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud packages is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.