If you want to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's pointed 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 website which you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because such a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose 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 site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based 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 visitors 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 very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.