Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to redirect 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 name it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional e-mail service with the first hosting company. It is also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and never a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one company to the servers of another company assuming 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 Website Hosting

In case you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.