There are several ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've set up a website using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you need to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.