If you want to point a domain name that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's redirected to. That way, if you are using 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 that you've set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main 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 creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this type of a record created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our shared hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create 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 provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. 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 address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.