Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account allows you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared package through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a few hours it is going to propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.