Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux shared website hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it will propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.