If you'd like to point a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain 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 directed to. That 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 site that you've created, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct 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 creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this type of a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed 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 basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, 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 address 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.