There are many ways to point a domain name 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 site using some on-line 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned 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 working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every web hosting, will enable you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated server that we provide, is very easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it's going to propagate around the globe. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.