Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's frequently confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every Linux shared hosting package, allows you to set up CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this sort of records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated package which we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to choose 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 easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a few hours it'll propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.