Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is often confused with the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of another provider in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting service we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within several hours it is going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you should do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.