If you want to direct a domain that you have to another domain address or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's forwarded to. By doing this, 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 pointed to the site that you have set up, but it'll also appear in the web browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all 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 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 Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every website hosting plan, will permit you to set up CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this sort of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting plan that we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it will propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.