There are several ways to direct 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 website through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way 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 company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
In case you have a web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain 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), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth 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 name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.