There are various ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the 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 can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every Linux web hosting package, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up such records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are going to be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just have to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.