If you would like to direct a domain name that you have to a different 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 being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's pointed to. In 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 pointed to the website that you have created, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, 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 due to the fact that this type of a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting is extremely 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 within your account in only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of options - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward 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 won't take you more than three clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.