There are several ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a website 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 will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a shared hosting through our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want 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 make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.