If you would like to forward a domain name that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name 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 website that you have set up, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, 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 simply because such a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP 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 just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.