If you'd like to direct a domain 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 name being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's directed to. This way, if you are using a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the site which you have set up, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this type of a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux website hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various options - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. 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'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.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated service we offer, is very simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it will propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.