There are many ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a website through some on-line service which supplies 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 will achieve as a result 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. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will 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 exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.