If you want to point a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's forwarded to. This 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 redirected to the Internet site that you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, 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 such a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared website hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside 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 number of opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish 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, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are 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 inside 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.