Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account allows you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the domain address it's being pointed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and retain a functional email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number because it is commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain being redirected. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address you own through one company to the servers of some other provider assuming you have set up a site with the latter. That way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared web hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.