There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website through 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 as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 address may have will stop functioning, 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 sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features 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 just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various options - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to create, change and delete CNAME records easily with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain name or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you simply have to pick the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), input where it is going to be forwarded to, pick the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you'll not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are available in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.