If you want to forward a domain name that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is directed to. By doing this, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be redirected to the Internet site that you've set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain, 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 simply because such a record set up for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our shared website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many options - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated plan that we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up 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's going to propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.