If you want to point a domain address that you have to another domain name or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's 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 pointed to the Internet site that you've set up, but it will also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the targeted traffic from different 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 simply because this kind of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting is really simple. 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 within your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create an Internet site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.