There are numerous ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've developed a website through 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another 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 Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this type 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 assist you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.