Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain address it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux shared web hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated package we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.