There are many ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a site using some on-line 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing 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 necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a shared hosting plan through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click on the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. That way, you will have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, 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 can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You're going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily with any 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 any domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.