There are several ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet 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 directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records if you have a Linux cloud web hosting plan from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. This way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one 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 name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.