Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domains or subdomains that you have in the hosting account will allow you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain it's being directed to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a functional email service with the first hosting company. It's also very important to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being redirected. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address which you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have set up a website with the latter. This way, the Internet site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared web hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.