CNAME Record
Does your website call for the use of CNAME records? What exactly are CNAME Records? How to create one?
There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a website through some on-line service that 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 will 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 provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
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CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you have a
cloud web hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this type of 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'll assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.
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CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every
semi-dedicated plan that we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.