There are lots of ways to redirect 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 using 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is 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 company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create 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, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. 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 same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.