There are lots of ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated server which we provide, is quite easy to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.