If you'd like to forward a domain that you have to a different domain or subdomain, a good way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain name being redirected loses all of its records (A, MX, and so on) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain it's redirected to. That 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 pointed to the site you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the web browser address bar at all times. Alternative possible uses of a CNAME record are to redirect all of the visitors from different subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your webhosting 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 created for the main domain makes it impossible to use email addresses.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of options - if you create a company website 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 choose to create a site using 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, 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 will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a challenging task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, select 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 easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a few hours it will propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.