Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account allows you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note 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 name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up this type 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 Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.