If you'd like to point a domain that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's redirected to. That way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be pointed to the site that you have created, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain, 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 because this type of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud website hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.