There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and more.