Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is frequently mistaken for 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 company assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux cloud hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of options - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.