There are various ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every cloud web hosting, will permit you to set up CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you're not sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create 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 revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.