If you would like to point a domain address that you have to another domain or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain name being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is pointed to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be pointed to the website that you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the 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 because this type of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud services is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.