If you wish to direct a domain that you have to another domain name or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's pointed to. This way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be pointed to the website that you have set up, but it'll also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all the visitors from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record set up for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
In case you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.