If you wish to forward a domain address that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one way to do that 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 Internet domain it is pointed to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the website you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain, 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 because this type of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help 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 want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and a lot more.