There are several 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 through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a shared hosting through our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record with ease. In case 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 name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're 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 type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.