There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a website through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
In case you have a hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled 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've added in your account. To create a new record, you only have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for a site created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.