Setting up a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account allows you to redirect 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 domain address it's being forwarded to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's generally confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain which you own through one provider to the servers of some other company in case you have set up a site with the latter. This 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 Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our cloud hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.