There are numerous ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a website through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are 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 Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.