There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should 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 directing to one company and functioning 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 company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every web hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is not likely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up such records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.