Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got within a hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another provider when you have created a site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our website hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 watch a short video within the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.