There are lots of ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a cloud website hosting package through our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then simply click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost right away. This way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any issues. 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 same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.