There are many ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've developed a site through 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. 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 company and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a Linux cloud website hosting from our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than 3 clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within 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 set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel 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.