There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website using some online service which supplies 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're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux shared hosting, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, is quite simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in 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 Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.