There are numerous ways to point a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux shared packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create 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, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.