If you wish to direct a domain name that you have to another domain name or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's directed to. By doing this, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the site that you've created, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since this type of a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed 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 within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails 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 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names 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 pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.