There are lots of ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a website 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a cloud web hosting through our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed 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 can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.