Creating a CNAME record for each of the domains or subdomains you've got in the hosting account will permit you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all its records - A, MX and so forth, and will take the records of the Internet domain it's being pointed to. In this light, you cannot create a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party company and maintain a working e-mail service with the first provider. It's also essential 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 domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have created a website with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our cloud hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site through 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, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.