If you want to forward a domain that you have to some other 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 its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's directed 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 name and not only will it be pointed to the website that you've created, but it will also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting plans is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select 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 convenience, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel about how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.