Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all 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 direct your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional email service with the first provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another company assuming you have created 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 company.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux web hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted 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 just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of possibilities - if you build a company site 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 want to create a site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take just a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will discover a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter will be directed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any issues, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for assistance.