Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you've got in a hosting account will allow you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it is being forwarded to. In this light, you simply can't create a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly mistaken for the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have set up a site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.