There are many ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will 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. 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 directing to one company and working email addresses with another. 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 Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a cloud website hosting plan with our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a few basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you'll have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain which 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), type where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.