If you wish to point a domain name that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's redirected to. This way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the website which you have set up, but it'll also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain because this type of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside 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 staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward 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 clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose 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 within the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.