Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will allow you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail 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 as it is generally confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming 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 provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than 3 clicks to create such a 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 CP, so when you're there, all that 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 input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.