There are lots of ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with 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 important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider 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 Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every shared hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain name or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to select the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.