There are several 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've created a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to 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 pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.