There are numerous ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points 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 Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have created a website using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will 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 could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.