If you want to direct a domain address 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 address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is directed to. By doing this, 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 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 point all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, 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 due to the fact that this type of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has 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 in your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to 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 create a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're 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 convenience, you can see a short video inside the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.