If you would like to direct a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one way to do that 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 Internet domain it's 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 name and not only will it be redirected to the Internet site that you have set up, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider 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 e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting packages is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish 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, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.