If you would like to forward a domain name that you have to another domain name or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is redirected to. By doing this, 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 that you have created, but it'll 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 targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider 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 makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud web hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based 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 redirect it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just have to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding 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 address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.