There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've created a website through 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux shared web hosting, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create such records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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