CNAME refers to a canonical name in the domain name management system, allows redirecting a hostname to another hostname e.g. pointing of domain name or subdomain to another subdomain or domain name. Kindly note established procedures and practices to discourage the use of a CNAME to point to implement alias domain functionality and may not work on the popular control panel and DNS system like the Cpanel. This software instead provide a compliant alias domain or domain forwarding functionalities like Domain Forwarding on WHM/Cpanel and Alias Domain on CPanel. Check out other examples Cloudflare CNAME flattening procedure Godaddy CNAME Flattening PowerDNS Alias Records Web hosting requires the provision of cloud storage, a web server, a database server, web pages editing files, domain name management system, FTP servers, ssh servers, content management software among other resources required.