If you wish to forward a domain address that you have to another domain address or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is forwarded to. 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 redirected to the Internet site you have set up, but it'll also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the visitors from various 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 makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud website hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated service we provide, is very easy to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it will propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you have to do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.