There are lots of ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a hosting through our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you can see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that simply click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated server we provide, is very simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple 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 fully active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.