If you want to forward a domain that you have to another 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, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's directed to. By doing this, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be redirected to the site that you've set up, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all the visitors from various subdomains to their main 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 setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that such a record created for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our hosting plans is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes 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 within your account in a couple of simple steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create an Internet site through a different company 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, in case 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 point 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 CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create 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 within the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.