Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is often confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another company assuming you have created a website with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated server we provide, is quite simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a few hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.