If you'd like to direct a domain address that you have to some other domain or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain address being pointed loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's directed to. That way, if you are using a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be directed to the site that you have created, but it'll also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to direct all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record created for the main domain name makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting with our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you can observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick 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 convenience, you can see a short video in the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.