There are many ways to direct 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've set up a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a cloud web hosting through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, and then just click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated server we offer, is very simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.