Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will permit you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first provider. Additionally, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up a site with the latter. By doing this, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux hosting package from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 benefit, you can see a short video within the Control Panel regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.