If you wish to forward a domain address 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 address being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's forwarded to. This way, if you use 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've set up, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a cloud hosting plan through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. This way, you will have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated hosting plan that we provide, is quite easy to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.