If you want to point 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 pointed loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it is redirected to. That 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 redirected to the Internet site that you have set up, but it will also appear in the browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the traffic from different subdomains to their main 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 setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain since such a record created for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.