There are many ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've developed a website through some on-line service that provides 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'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux web hosting service through our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot 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 where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting service that we provide, is quite simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.