There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've set up a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every hosting, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.