Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in a hosting account allows 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 address it's being redirected to. In this light, you simply can't set up a CNAME record to forward your domain to a third-party company and keep a functional email service with the first hosting company. It's also important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's regularly confused with the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to forward a domain address that you own through one company to the servers of some other company if you have created an Internet site with the latter. By doing this, the site will appear under your own domain name, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
In case you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a site through another company, 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.