If you want to point a domain name that you have to another domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is forwarded to. In this way, 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 Internet site you have set up, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up 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 within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that 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 benefit, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.