There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site through 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every shared website hosting service, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is not likely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create such records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name 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's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video inside the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.