If you wish to point a domain name that you have to a different domain name or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, etc) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it's redirected to. This way, if you use 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 directed to the website that you've set up, but it'll also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all the traffic from various subdomains to their main domain address, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by setting up a CNAME record for a subdomain because this kind of a record set up for the main domain address renders it impossible to use e-mail addresses.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of options - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.