Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than three clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.