There are various ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a website through some on-line service which 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'll achieve with this 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 very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting plan with our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that simply click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's 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 will take you literally only a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each semi-dedicated hosting plan we provide, is very easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will 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 or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within several hours it will propagate worldwide. 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 in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.