Creating a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain name to a third-party company and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name which you own through one company to the servers of some other company in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a site through another provider, 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 clicks in your Control Panel.