Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and keep 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 never a number as it's often confused with the A record of the domain being forwarded. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain which you own through one company to the servers of another company if you have created an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.