There are several ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a website hosting through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.