There are many ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every Linux hosting service, will allow you to set up CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will 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 could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.