There are several ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a web hosting through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily with all 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 any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on 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 innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.