If you'd like to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's redirected to. By doing this, 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 site which you have set up, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, 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 because this kind of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux shared website hosting service, will enable you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account with several clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.