Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one company to the servers of some other provider in case you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud package, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up such records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated package that we offer, is very simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it will propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.