There are several ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a website through some online service which provides 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'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot 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

Creating a CNAME record using our shared plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.