If you wish to forward a domain name that you have to a different 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 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 name and not only will it be forwarded to the Internet site which you have set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward 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 are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated package which we offer, is very easy to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, choose 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 procedure is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within several hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you should do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.