If you want to point a domain that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain name being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is directed to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be directed to the site that you've set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, 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 because this type of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose 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 Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.