If you want to forward a domain name that you have to another domain or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it is forwarded to. In this way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be directed to the Internet site which you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of 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 instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many options - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward 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 are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than 3 clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are 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 benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel about 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.