If you want to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain name or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is redirected to. In this way, if you use a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be forwarded to the site that you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain due to the fact that this kind of a record created for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out 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, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.