Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's frequently confused with the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every Linux cloud web hosting package, will enable you to set up CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the Control Panel regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.