Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have set up a website with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux hosting plans is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed 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 only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create 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 within the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.