There are numerous ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux shared web hosting package, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available inside the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video inside the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.