Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it is being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a working email service with the first provider. It's also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it is regularly mistaken for the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have created a site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP included 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. In case you have never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.