There are several ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing 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. You should 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 pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up a site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to create, change and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via 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 simply have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain 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, plus much more.