If you want to direct a domain name that you have to another domain or subdomain, one of the ways to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain name being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it's 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 forwarded to the site you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative 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 provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up a site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record with ease. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 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 once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video in the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.