If you wish to point a domain name that you have to a different domain name or subdomain, a good way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is directed to. That way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the website that you've set up, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the visitors 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 creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this kind of a record created for the main domain renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared web hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP 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 a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website 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 online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.