There are several ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've developed a website through some online 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with 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 provider. You should 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 functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.