Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a working email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is commonly confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created a website using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it requires just a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted in the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be forwarded 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 easy and takes a click. In case you experience any troubles, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for assistance.