If you want to forward 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 setting up such a record, the domain address being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's pointed to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the Internet site you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet 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 Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain because such a record set up 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 really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, 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 inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site through a different company 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, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.