There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a website through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will 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 company. 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 can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated hosting plan that we offer, is extremely easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.