There are various ways to point a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've set up a website through some on-line service that 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 in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux hosting packages is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated 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 a couple of basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.