There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've created a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing 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 company. It is very important to 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 frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every shared hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domains and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this sort of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each semi-dedicated server which we provide, is very simple to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it will propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you need to do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.