Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will enable you to point 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 domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. It is also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one company to the servers of another provider if you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a website hosting plan with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it requires just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter will be pointed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any issues, you can go through our detailed help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.