If you wish to point a domain 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 forwarded loses all of its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain name it's forwarded to. By doing this, if you are using 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 Internet site that you've set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main domain name, 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 because this type of a record created for the main domain address makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP included with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it takes just a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter is going to be pointed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any troubles, you can go through our detailed help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can just contact us for assistance.