Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to forward 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 set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other company assuming you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated plan we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.