Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have within a hosting account allows you to direct 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 address it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is commonly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will require only a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will discover a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be redirected to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is equally simple and takes a click. If you experience any problems, you can go through our detailed help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for help.