If you would like to forward a domain name that you have to a different domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's pointed 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 redirected to the Internet site which you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has 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 a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.