There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some on-line 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 are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every shared web hosting plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.