There are several 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 developed a site through some on-line service which supplies 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 are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to 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 name may have will stop working, 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 in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP 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, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built a site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating 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 create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create 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 hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.