Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains you have in a hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain will lose all of its records - A, MX and so on, and will take the records of the Internet domain it is being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to point your domain to a third-party provider and maintain a working e-mail 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 generally mistaken for the A record of the domain address being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain address that you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider when you have set up a website with the latter. By doing this, the website will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our shared hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features 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 only a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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 point it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.