Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domains or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain name it is being pointed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's often confused with the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain that you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have set up an Internet site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our hosting plans is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.