There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting package through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy 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 every domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.