If you'd like to direct a domain address that you have to a different domain address or subdomain, the best way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's directed to. By doing this, 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 redirected to the website that you've set up, but it will also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the visitors 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 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 makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name 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 redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are 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 enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.