There are various ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux shared hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't certain how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.