If you would like to point 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 of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is directed to. In this way, 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 forwarded 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 direct all of the traffic 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 because such a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name 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 create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.