If you wish to point a domain name that you have to a different domain name or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up 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 Internet domain it is pointed to. In this way, if you are using 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 which you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main 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 setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared website hosting services is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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 forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated service which we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it will propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.