There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our cloud plans is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You're going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will 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 CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding 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 revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.