There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site 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 working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. 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
The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every cloud hosting plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. In case you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.