There are numerous ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a website through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the 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 directing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
In case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built an Internet 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 company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it requires only a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you will simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be pointed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for assistance.