There are several ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have created a website using some on-line 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 are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important 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 directing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
In case you have a shared website 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 domains and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have created a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which 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 CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and much more.