There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a site through some online service that 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 as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every cloud website hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to set up, modify 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'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly 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 create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.