There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a website using some online service which provides 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared web hosting package through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're going to be able to create, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using 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 need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you are going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which could be found 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 an Internet site created elsewhere, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.