If you want to direct a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is redirected to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the site which you have set up, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed 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 only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will require just a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will discover a section devoted to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for help.