If you want to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's redirected to. In this way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the site that you've set up, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that such a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single 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 to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside 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 choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.