There are various ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a website through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely 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 could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.