There are lots of ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create 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 working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.