Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you have within a hosting account will permit you to point 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 domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working email service with the first provider. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain you own through one provider to the servers of another provider assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our shared plans is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of options - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website by using 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 online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct 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 CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.