Setting up 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 it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name that you own through one provider to the servers of another company in case you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.