There are lots of ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way 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 company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our shared hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting plan which we offer, is very simple to use. If you would like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.