There are numerous ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.