There are lots of ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up 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 site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create 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 working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every Linux website hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is unlikely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to select 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 in the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.