There are numerous ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line 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 are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will 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 very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. 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 Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built a site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than three mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domains 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 you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.