There are various ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some online service which 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 will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. 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 pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every hosting plan, will permit you to set up CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted in the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is not likely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're forwarding 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 of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy 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'll see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. 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 same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.