Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will enable you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux 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 simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 redirect it to the main domain, so all your clients 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 set up a CNAME record, it will require just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in 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 is going to be pointed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any troubles, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for assistance.