Creating a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is regularly confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux shared web hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.