Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is often wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another provider in case you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.