If you want to forward a domain address that you have to some other 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 name being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is redirected to. This way, if you use a web design service by some company 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 created, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this type of a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our shared website hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of options - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.