Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's often confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux shared web hosting service, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you're not sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the detailed 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 issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.