There are many ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting package with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot 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 where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily 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 any domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.