Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain address being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one company to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.