There are lots of ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've developed a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is 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 provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared website hosting from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, is very simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain address 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 CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.