Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain addresses or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will allow you to forward 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 Internet domain it is being pointed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to forward your domain name to a third-party provider and retain a working email service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number because it is commonly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a website with the latter. In this way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.