There are lots of ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential 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 email addresses with another one. 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 Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it takes no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will discover a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter is going to be forwarded to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for help.