There are various ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could 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 with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every shared hosting, will enable you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with several clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available in the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're redirecting 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 of 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 this kind of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three clicks to set up such a 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 Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.