There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've set up a website through some on-line 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should 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 working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.