CNAME Records

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Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains that you've got in the hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't create a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and retain a functional email service with the first provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain address which you own through one company to the servers of some other provider if you have set up an Internet site with the latter. This way, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

: CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP 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 just a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up 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 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.