If you would like to point a domain address that you have to another domain name or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is redirected to. By doing this, 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 directed to the site you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other 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 simply because this kind of a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site through a different company that 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 online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.