Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains you've got 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 etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is generally confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address 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 name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud website hosting package through our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. This way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP about 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.