If you'd like to forward a domain name that you have to another domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's pointed to. By doing this, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be pointed to the site you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain address, 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 since this kind of a record set up for the main domain name renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our website hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various options - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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 forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.