If you want to point a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, a good way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is pointed 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 pointed to the site you have created, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain address, 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 because this kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our shared website hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based 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 customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in 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 create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.