If you'd like to direct a domain that you have to a different domain name 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 pointed loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's pointed 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 and not only will it be forwarded to the Internet site you have created, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because such a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared website hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.