There are several ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating 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 Internet 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 can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that 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, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created a website using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the 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, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.