Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will permit you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. Also, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain that you own through one company to the servers of another company in case you have set up an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the website 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 through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just 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 to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.