CNAME Record

Does your website call for the use of CNAME records? What precisely are CNAME Records? How to make one?

If you want to point a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain name being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's redirected to. That way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the Internet site which you have created, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting 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 kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every website hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you are pointing to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting plan which we offer, is very easy to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within several hours it will propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.