Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it's being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address you own through one company to the servers of another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting plan that we provide, is very simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will 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 or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.