Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all 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 create a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and keep a functional e-mail service with the first provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number because it is frequently wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain which you own through one company 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 address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud web hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line 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 point it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.