If you would like to point 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 address being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's directed to. In this way, if you are using 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 directed to the website that you've set up, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the traffic from various subdomains to their main 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 simply because this type of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has 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 a couple of basic steps. You'll find 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 build a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will see a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the modification. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as easy and takes a click. In case you experience any difficulties, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.