Creating a CNAME record for any one of the domain names or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will enable you to point it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain address will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being directed to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first hosting provider. Additionally, it is essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is regularly wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of another provider when you have created a website with the latter. This way, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a cloud website hosting through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to make it happen.