If you wish to point a domain name 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 address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is forwarded to. In this 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've 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 point all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because such a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our shared website hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted 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 a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many options - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.