There are lots of ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've set up a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way 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 very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux web hosting package, allows you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this kind of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.