If you would like to direct a domain name that you have to some other domain or subdomain, one way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the Internet domain it is forwarded 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 pointed to the Internet site that you've created, but it will also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the targeted traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since this type of a record set up for the main domain makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.