Setting up a CNAME record for each of the domain addresses or subdomains that you've got in a hosting account will enable you to forward it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it is being directed to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party company and keep a working e-mail service with the first hosting provider. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being redirected. One of the major uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of another company if you have created a site with the latter. That way, the site will appear under your own domain, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up a site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.