If you want to direct a domain name that you have to another domain or subdomain, a good way to do that would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's directed 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 redirected to the website which you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the traffic from various subdomains to their main Internet domain, 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 such a record set up for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux hosting packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a website using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we offer, is very easy to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.