Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain names or subdomains you've got within a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another company when you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video within the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.