Setting up a CNAME record for any of the domain names or subdomains you have in the hosting account will allow you to redirect it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded domain name will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain name it's being redirected to. In this light, you can't set up a CNAME record to direct your domain name to a third-party provider and maintain a working email service with the first provider. It is also essential to know that a CNAME record is always a string of words rather than a number as it's commonly wrongly identified as the A record of the domain name being forwarded. One of the primary uses of a CNAME record is to direct a domain name you own through one company to the servers of some other company when you have set up an Internet 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
You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud hosting package from our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a number of easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you'll have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure 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 could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a mouse click to do it.