There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating 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 is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If 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 simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up a site using 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 couple of clicks inside your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting package that we offer, is quite easy to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the globe. If you aren't sure what you need 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're both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.