If you'd like to direct 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 address being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is directed to. By doing this, if you are using a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be directed to the website you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet 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 since such a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our cloud hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a website 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, 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through 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 need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.