There are several 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 and you've set up a website through 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 will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a shared hosting from our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to create, change and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.