There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way 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 provider. 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 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 Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux website hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of possibilities - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.