There are lots of ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet 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 functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to create, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite easy to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and more.