Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is often confused with the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider in case you have created an Internet site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our web hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of 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 CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.