There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a site through some online service that 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'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. You should 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 company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every cloud web hosting service, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you only need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.