Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain 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 can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note 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 redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other company assuming you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, 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

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux shared web hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel 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 just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create 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.