If you would like to direct a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is directed 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 pointed to the website which you have created, but it will also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this type of a record set up for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our web hosting service is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted 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 only a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site 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 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 are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting service that we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a couple of hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.