There are various ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this 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 provider. It is very important to know that if you create 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 provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every web hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up such records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.