There are lots of ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've set up a website using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot 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

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux cloud hosting services is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted 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 simple steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed via the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To set up a new record, you only have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth 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 could easily use a domain address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and a lot more.