There are lots of ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've developed a site through 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way 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 provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared web hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, 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 site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly easy to use, so you will not have any problems. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.