CNAME Records

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If you would like to forward a domain address that you have to some other domain or subdomain, one way 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 forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is forwarded 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 and not only will it be redirected to the website you have created, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted 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 a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.