Setting up a CNAME record for each 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 address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first hosting company. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is generally confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. In this way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our shared web hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick 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 see a short video inside the CP 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.