There are several ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've set up a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating 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 Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily 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 will see all records for any domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on 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 address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.