There are lots of ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every cloud web hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is not likely that you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will 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 could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.