There are many ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've set up a website using some on-line service which provides 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'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our website hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted 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 simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through 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 create a new record, you simply have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.