There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've created a site using 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't 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 in some cases more configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based 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 direct it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are 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 managed through the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you have added in your account. To create a new record, you need to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.