If you would like to direct a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's redirected 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 redirected to the website you have set up, but it will also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company 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 kind of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting packages is extremely easy. 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 inside your account in a couple of basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain 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 forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated package that we offer, is extremely easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.