If you would like to point a domain address that you have to a different domain address or subdomain, the best way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's pointed to. In this way, 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 directed to the website which you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record created for the main domain name renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just 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, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.