If you wish to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's forwarded to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the Internet site you have created, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this kind of a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain 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'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are 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 convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.