There are numerous ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a site through some on-line 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 are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux shared package, will enable you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available inside the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domains and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all 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 input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.