If you wish to forward a domain address 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 address being forwarded loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the 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 directed to the website that you've created, but it will also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main domain name, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for example. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain since this type of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use email addresses.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse 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 plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through 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, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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