Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being directed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have created an Internet site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting package from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can 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, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.