There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name 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 set up a website through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 set up 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 functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.