If you want to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's pointed 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 name and not only will it be pointed to the site you have created, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, 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 this kind of a record set up for the main domain name renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud website hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few 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 various possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated server we provide, is quite simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.