There are lots of ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to 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 e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one 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 address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. 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 exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.