There are numerous ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website using 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet 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 may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud web hosting package, will permit you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available within the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with 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, allows you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind 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 CP, so once you are there, all that 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 Control Panel about 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.