There are lots of ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site through some online 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're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared hosting through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and more.