If you'd like to point a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do that 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 Internet domain it is redirected to. By doing this, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be redirected to the Internet site that you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider 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 created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux hosting plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you create 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 through a different provider which 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 on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, 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 each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect 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 won't 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 CP, so once you are there, all that 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.