There are several ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've created a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should 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 provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. 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 Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added such a 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 will help you with this task. If you have set up a site through another company, 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 company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you only need to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created someplace else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, and much more.