If you would like to point a domain address that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is directed to. In this way, if you use 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 site that you've created, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this type of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.