If you want to direct a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, a good way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is 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 and not only will it be redirected to the site you have set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet 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 since such a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a website hosting with our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.