If you wish to point a domain address that you have to a different domain or subdomain, a good way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's forwarded to. That way, 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 forwarded to the Internet site which you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the visitors 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 instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record set up for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our cloud website hosting plans is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 within your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect 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'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.