There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very 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 e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux web hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up such records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.