There are lots of ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site 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 functioning, so you cannot 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 in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our web hosting plans is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using 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've added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.