There are various ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a site using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up 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 will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every Linux hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you're not sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.