If you want to point a domain address that you have to another domain or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is redirected to. In this way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be forwarded to the website that you've set up, but it will also appear in the Internet 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 due to the fact that this type of a record created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case 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 just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a site via another company, 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 provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the CP regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.