Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally mistaken for the A record of the domain 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 some other provider when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.