There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a website using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs 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 website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

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

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any one 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 or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain address hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and much more.