There are many ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with 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. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many options - if you build a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.