There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've developed a site through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have created a website using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.